Collecting

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Kissin’ and collectin’ cousins

How one branch of a German noble family married into every European royal family and acquired spectacular works of art

Want a piece of a former Met curator's collection? It'll cost less than you think

The collection of Everett Fahy, who led the museum’s European paintings department and later the Frick Collection, headlines Christie's Old Master sale

ARTnews reveals 2016's top 200 collectors

Annual list of leading collectors boasts usual array of property developers, computer software designers and bankers

Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan collection to be sold in aid of historic London studios

Sotheby’s auction is expected to raise £600,000 towards restoration of Durham Wharf by architecture collective Assemble

New affordable-art website Collectionair backed by curatorial big-hitters

Former director of Pompidou among names behind online platform, which sells works for under $10,000<br> <br>

Rich list 2016: fortunes drop for several British-based art collectors

Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich have slipped down the Sunday Times ranking

Sol LeWitt’s art collection reveals friendships and artistic resonances

The Drawing Center displays a selection of the 4,000 works amassed by the ‘natural-born collector’

Wild at art: private art foundation dedicated to adventurer and watercolourist Tony Foster opens in Silicon Valley

The artist’s patron, the renewable energy investor Jane Woodward, has wholly backed the project

MoMA swings into the 1960s with new collection display

The museum will reinstall its fourth floor galleries with international works from the “boundary-crossing” decade

Booksnews

Book on Gertrude Stein’s art collecting family wins Frick prize

Editors and contributors share $25,000 biennial award, this year backed by the Broad Foundation

Collectors can find a new niche at Frieze Masters

David Bailey’s torn portraits, sculpture from Borneo and netsuke put the eclectic into Collections

Is it time for regional museums to woo big collectors?

Summit in Sheffield asks how arts organisations can attract private patronage

Luciano Benetton’s collection presents a united view of the world’s cultures

But Venice exhibition is also full of political unrest and upheaval

Murakami reveals surprise debt to Anselm Kiefer

Superstar artist provides exclusive insight into vast and eclectic collection before his Yokohama show—just don’t call him the Japanese Andy Warhol

Private museums multiply among ARTnews top 200 collectors

Among who's who of leading collectors, many have established foundations

‘Commerce is in. If real estate is booming, art is booming’

Property tycoon Aby Rosen, promoting his new Manhattan skyscraper, talks about art-world fatigue and giving something back to society

Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick: one of Europe's greatest collectors

His outstanding collection secured his legacy, says Joachim Whaley

Private museums band together at London's Art15 fair

International collectors plan to share exhibitions and co-commission works of art

Website launching this week aims to make collecting digital art easier

Daata Editions commissions original sound, video and online works of art

Row over Old Masters flares up in Madrid

National heritage office says the Prado should hand over four paintings for new Royal Collections museum

America is easier to see, but the whole picture remains elusive: Alexander Alberro on the Whitney’s opening exhibition

Unknown works appear with more familiar ones but a few key pieces have lost impact they once had in Breuer Building

Three quarters of new collectors buy art online for investment, study finds

But buyers are not risking large sums, with the majority of works still priced below £10,000

Booksnews

A glimpse behind the doors of the Roman Baroque palace

A year of research reveals how nobles used theatrical interiors to show their collections

Booksarchive

Larry Warsh explores buyers’ behaviour in new book

The avid collector is trying to understand why acquiring art can be such a compulsion

Flipping art: filthy lucre or a sound business plan?

In 2014 we noted that market speculation can offer rich rewards, but in the long term, it may do collectors more harm than good

Art marketarchive

‘Poor door’ opens to let in new collectors as galleries reach out to a wider market with souvenirs and branding

From limited-edition works to T-shirts and tote bags, galleries are diversifying to suit the market

Collectorsarchive

Online database Larryslist.com ranks private collectors

Rankings take into account the collector's participation and responsibilities within the art world

Interviewarchive

The scoop on Russia: Interview with Milena Orlova

Milena Orlova, the editor of The Art Newspaper Russia, discusses the market, collectors and why Russia needs an art newspaper